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@SicPreFix:
“The” gets replaced with “ye” because “ye” is an archaic spelling of “the”. It goes back to when the letter “thorn” (which denoted a th sound) was removed from the english language. All uses of thorn were replaced with a “y”, but still pronounced “th”. So the was said “the”, but spelled “ye”. I imagine this confusing state of affairs is the reason why we now use a th for that purpose instead of y.

@James K: Arrr, ’tis a good ying yey did! Wiyout a doubt, ye situation would be yoroughly off-putting, by garrr. You yink yings are confusing in English now, yen yere was one letter doing yree jobs – consonant, vowel, and dipyong, not to mention two completely different sounds. Mind you, t’wouldn’t matter if you spelled it ‘you’ or ‘you’, ye meaning be ye same, yough the pronunciation differ.